Manchester Linked Data
This site offers Linked Open Data for datasets relating to Manchester.
This site was initially created by Swirrl for the Lovely Data Hackday organised by the Manchester Digital Development Agency and OpenDataManchester held on the 9th of April 2011.
We hope that over time we can build up a large collection of open, linked data to encourage the use and reuse of Manchester-related data.
Either using our RESTful HTTP API, or via SPARQL, you can access the data in a variety of formats to extract it in the way that's useful for you. We hope that people will use this in a variety of ways and combine it with information from other sources.
Click the Datasets link in the top-right to start browsing the data.
Award Winning Data!
We were awarded the Linked Data award in the 2011 Open Data Challenge (a European-wide competition run by the Open Knowledge Foundation) for the bus timetable data on this site. Read More on Swirrl's blog.
Featured apps
GMBuses: a web application by Ben Gibbs which provides access to the bus timetable data.
NextBus: a location-aware mobile application by David Bamber for finding your next bus.
If you create an application or visualisation that uses the data, please let us know - we'd be happy to link to it and/or feature it on the site.
Get in touch with us at hello@linkedmanchester.org.